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MidCenturyMoldy

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  1. Well, maybe Russia will relent and things can go back to their pre-apocalyptic norms? Then again, a Saudi-Russian hot war might be fun! 😱 Oil plunges near $30 a barrel as Saudi-Russia price fight erupts https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Oil-in-Freefall-After-Saudis-Slash-Prices-in-15115465.php?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=twitter&utm_source=twitter.com
  2. Then again, with lower gasoline prices, it'll be easier to drive around the country searching for pockets of population unaffected by Coronavirus. 😐
  3. Saudi Arabia Stuns World With Massive Discount In Oil Sold To Asia, Europe And U.S. Oil prices are down more than 30% this year. Oil prices are poised to drop dramatically after Saudi Arabia announced a stunning discount in oil prices — of $6 to $8 per barrel — to its customers in Asia, the United States and Europe. The world's second-largest producer this weekend also said it will actually boost oil production instead of cutting it to stem falling prices, in a stunning reversal in policy from just two days ago. The benchmark Brent oil price already plunged 9.4%, to $45.27 per barrel, on Friday. The drop came after Saudi Arabia, the rest of OPEC and Russia failed to agree on production cuts to combat falling prices due to fears that the coronavirus epidemic will halt world economic growth. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/08/813439501/saudi-arabia-stuns-world-with-massive-discount-in-oil-sold-to-asia-europe-and-u-
  4. The days are numbered for this particular view. Going to miss it, actually.
  5. I didn't even notice that all those buildings around "Texas Commerce Tower"* are new. * I, on the other hand, am not new!
  6. Well, if you think about it, the parking garage for JP Morgan Chase Tower (or whatever it's called now) also takes up a whole block. It just doesn't have a skyscraper built on top of it. It has one across the street.
  7. From the 1978 map, it looks like there are apartments on the Mandell end of the block. That is what I thought I remembered.
  8. I beg to differ! It displaces the free parking lot where I used to park and then take the train into Downtown! 😁
  9. Thanks. I already had it and looked at the historical data immediately upon reading your post.
  10. I should have added "Not that the symmetry makes it any better." I liked Post-Modernism back in the early 80s...I have since recovered.
  11. You know, as I find happens to me a lot in Houston, I don't remember what was there before.
  12. ^ I ate at the Felix on Westheimer once...in 1985, I believe... I was not impressed. I much preferred Chapultepec, or even the original Tila's (where Katz's Deli is now) in those days. Still, I do miss seeing the Felix sign and name on the building.
  13. Yep, Menil Park was there when I lived there. The Center For Photography was a convenience store. What freaks me out is that there are two fairly good-sized live oaks in front of the apartment building where I lived...that weren't there at all when I lived there. Talk about making a person feel old!
  14. I definitely agree that it's better than what's currently there, and better than just sticking an apartment tower (or two) on the spot. My concern is that its scale is too big for that intersection. Neither Montrose nor Westheimer are as expansive as that rendering makes them look. Now, if they put giant billboards and neon on it and make Montrose at Westheimer a mini Times Square or a mini Yonge-Dundas Square (Toronto) I'm all in!
  15. Yikes! Looks like Randall Davis tries his hand at a Michael Graves knockoff.
  16. No offense, but with that comment and especially with the laughing smiley reaction, you're being a bit of an a... well, you get the point.
  17. It's hard to have a sense of place when the place you're trying to have a sense of keeps disappearing out from under you. I first moved into Montrose (the fourplex at West Alabama and Mulberry...it's still there) in January of 1979. The flavor of THAT Montrose is long gone. Houston's not the only place that's changing so rapidly that any sense of place is at risk...Dallas and Austin are like that to some extent. Seattle, too. Toronto is almost a whole new city from the one I lived in as a kid for a couple of years in the early 70s. . . . Edited to add: I will say this, azaleas, pine trees, pine needles, live oaks, asiatic jasmine, moss on bricks, broken sidewalks, torrential rain and mildew all scream "HOME" to me. I suppose that's a sense of place.
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